Re: Can not compile Texinfo with MinGW+MSYS

[Eli Zaretskii]

> I have tried to compile Texinfo with MinGW+MSYS. Configure runs ok (I
> believe) but make fails. The problems I have seen so far are:
> 
> mkdir - too many args

My crystal ball says Texinfo wants a Unixy mkdir, but you either don't
have it or your ported Make invokes the cmd.exe's built-in version of
mkdir.  Make sure you have a Windows port of GNU Fileutils installed,
and then tweak Make setup to invoke mkdir.exe from Fileutils.  (As the
last resort, you can rename mkdir.exe to gmkdir.exe and edit the
Makefile's to call gmkdir instead of mkdir.)

> makeinfo.c: In function `error':
> makeinfo.c:218: warning: passing arg 2 of `libintl_vfprintf' discards
> qualifiers from pointer target type

This is a warning (GCC started whining about such ``problems'' in
recent versions).  It shouldn't prevent makeinfo from building, so
don't worry about that.

> It would be nice if Texinfo could be compiled with MinGW+MSYS. You can
> compile Emacs with this combination (see http://www.emacswiki.org/), but to
> build the docs you have to have makeinfo (at least I believe so).

Only the CVS version of Emacs; the official distribution comes with
the Info files prebuilt.